Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Commerce Secretary Raimondo defends census privacy method


Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo on Wednesday defended a controversial privacy technique being used by the U.S. Census Bureau in the 2020 census, a method the agency promised would only make small changes to actual numbers in counts of racial and ethnic groups. The technique called “differential privacy” adds mathematical “noise,” or errors, to the data […]

source https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation/commerce-secretary-raimondo-defends-census-privacy-method/?utm_source=RSS&utm_medium=Referral&utm_campaign=RSS_technology

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